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Crossings / Florida / Ocala

Ocala
Florida.

Public crossings77at grade, on the FRA inventory
With gates65%25 with no active device
Under a whistle ban12as last filed by the railroad
Reported incidents8Form 57, since 2016

The federal crossing inventory lists 77 public at-grade railroad crossings in Ocala, FL, operated by 2 railroads. 10 of them carry more than one track.

Who runs the track

FLORIDA NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, INC. operates 54 of the crossings here, 70% of the total, ahead of CSX Transportation at 23.

Train services crossing these streets: freight (54).

RailroadCrossingsShare
FLORIDA NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY, INC.5470%
CSX Transportation2330%

How much traffic is reported

The busiest crossing at NE 8th Ave on CSX Transportation is credited with 8 train movements a day; the middle of the range across all 77 is 0. These are counts the operating railroad reported to the FRA, not measurements, and a crossing's figure can be several years old.

The highest timetable speed recorded at any crossing here is 79 mph.

Warning devices

50 of the 77 crossings carry gates and 2 have flashing lights without gates. 25 (32%) have neither, which means crossbucks, a stop sign, or no marking the inventory records at all. The inventory describes equipment, not how a crossing performs.

Horns and quiet zones

12 of the crossings (16%) are recorded under a whistle ban. A quiet zone is not silence: horns still sound for emergencies, track workers and at the engineer's discretion, and the status in the inventory is only as current as the last railroad filing.

Incident history

Form 57 records 8 reported incidents at these crossings since 2016, involving 1 death. Incident counts follow traffic and exposure as much as anything about a crossing itself.

  • NW 2nd St — 2 reported incidents
  • CR-329 — 1 reported incident
  • NE 95th St — 1 reported incident
  • NE 70th St — 1 reported incident
  • NE 8th Ave — 1 reported incident

What this page is not

This is a summary of a federal inventory, not a measurement and not a rating. RailContext does not score crossings, streets or towns, and nothing here says a crossing is safe or unsafe, or that a neighbourhood is quiet or loud. Train counts are estimates the operating railroad filed, sometimes years ago, and a quiet zone does not guarantee silence.

To see the individual crossings nearest one address rather than a whole city, use the address check.

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